The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.